A simple question for progressives (#10)

Since we presumably still live in a nation of laws and not of men, and since the U.S. Constitution is still the supreme law of the land, I ask you to first read these small portions of that document, after which I’ll pose my question.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

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if they go through due process and have fair support of both sides we can have universal healthcare better yet a model like australias (Noam chomsky recommended we take after their system)
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LMAO Alo.
Given the current state of the law, the fair answer is this clause:
“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”
Clearly health care is commerce and if its commerce, Congress can mess with it. Of course, they will need a healthy amount of this too:
“To borrow money on the credit of the United States;”

Believe me, I know that’s what the statists will cite as justification. To them, the Interstate Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause are blank checks for fulfilling their every warm fuzzy wish. Sure, stare decisis has applied glacier-thick layers of traditional deference to the statists’ interpretation, but it’s still wrong (especially if the courts try to justify ObamaCare as a proper exercise of the Interstate Commerce Clause). They must be stopped.Wickard v. Filburn and its like-minded progeny uphold the finest tradition of that famous quip from Oliver Twist, “the law is a ass.”
To quote the Father of the Constitution himself …

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
— James Madison

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